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My Pinup by Hilton Als
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.22In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als distills into one cocktail the deep and potent complexities of love and of loss, of Prince and of power, of desire and... -
The Women by Hilton Als 9780374525293
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $13.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525293Author Hilton AlsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same,... -
Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.01In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly... -
Moonlight Screenplay Book Barry Jenkins 9781733992022
Booksplease Price: $69.21With a foreword by Frank Ocean, Barry Jenkins's and Tarell Alvin McCraney's Academy Award-winning screenplay is accompanied by an essay by Hilton Als and acceptance speeches from Moonlight's historic... -
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir by Eileen Myles
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94Skinny's Book of the Year, 2018In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the writer's way of being. Over the course of sixteen... -
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Alexander Chee 9781526609113
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Named a Best Book of 2018 by TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Paste, Bitch,... -
At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World by Alice Neel 9781644231302
RRP: $60.30Booksplease Price: $42.28Alice Neel's unstinting, visionary engagement with the lives of those around her resulted in an inclusive oeuvre. This aspect of queer representation in her work is explored for the first time in... -
Eternity: Selected Poems by Tracy K. Smith
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs' The New York TimesUS Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith... -
Island People: The Caribbean and the World by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro 9781782115625
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing AwardsIn this fascinating travelogue, the product of almost a decade of travel and intense study, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro strips away the fantasy and... -
The Mountain Lion (Faber Editions): 'I love this novel' Patricia Lockwood by Jean Stafford 9780571368174
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Introduced by Hilton Als, in 'one of the best novels about adolescence in American literature' (New York Times) two siblings come of age in a mountainous wilderness ...'One of the strangest and... -
Upstairs at the Strand: Writers in Conversation at the Legendary Bookstore by Jessica Strand 9780393352085
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48Based on a series of talks pairing writers of note, Upstairs at the Strand offers candid accounts of the ways leading writers work, think and live. The book features such celebrated novelists,... -
April Dawn Alison by April Dawn Alison 9781912339433
Booksplease Price: $46.95Made over the course of some thirty years, the photographs in this book depict the many faces of April Dawn Alison, the female persona of an Oakland, California based photographer who lived in the... -
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb 9780008498740
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more ... -
Giovanni's Room James Baldwin 9780241718599
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwin's ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl... -
Nova Scotia House: A Novel by Charlie Porter 9781802067446
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.73A FOYLES AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE‘A work of genius’ Philip Hoare‘One of the best things I’ve read in many many years’ Hilton Als'Beautifully provocative'... -
The Caretaker Doon Arbus 9780811234771
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.74Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector-author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation-the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a... -
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z: A Library of America Special Publication by Jonathan Lethem
Booksplease Price: $55.57The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n' roll legends Jonathan Lethem and... -
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul 9781529111552
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what' Olivia LaingI'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.In Self-Portrait,... -
The Caretaker by Doon Arbus
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.75Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector-the author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation-the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a... -
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity Sarah Schulman 9781913512774
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41From award-winning writer Sarah Schulman, a longtime activist and critic of the Israeli war on Gaza, comes a brilliant examination of the misunderstood concept of solidarity which seeks to provide a... -
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping Shane McCrae 9781838854225
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Shane McCrae was born to a white mother and a Black father. At eighteen months old, he was kidnapped from his parents' house... -
No Name in the Street James Baldwin 9780241711187
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on America's abortive civil-rights movement' -The New York TimesIn this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the... -
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $7.05'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs TonightWINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book AwardIn the tradition of Behind the Beautiful... -
Arthur Miller: American Witness by John Lahr 9780300276794
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights "Lahr's cogent analyses are revelatory. . . . He does not... -
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae 9781838854195
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.56VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR 2023A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023When Shane McCrae was eighteen months old, he was removed from his parents and taken to suburban Texas. His mother was... -
Funeral Diva by Pamela Sneed 9780872868113
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Funeral Diva is the Winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry!A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art."Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry,... -
Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America Ralf Webb 9781399713252
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body'Raymond Antrobus, author of The PerseveranceIn October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco... -
Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul 9781529919974
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29A unique combination of memoir and artistic biography, interspersed with original artworks, from the acclaimed artist and author of SELF-PORTRAIT.We are both painters. We can connect to each other... -
The Richard Burton Diaries by Chris Williams 9780300197280
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.04The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety"Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a... -
What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.90*A Financial Times Book of the Year* 'The first time I opened What Artists Wear, I gasped with pleasure. Imagine it as a kind of punk cousin to John Berger's Ways of Seeing, liberally illustrated... -
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson 9781783783397
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times 'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant, Guardian The daughter of a successful... -
Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke 9781982135492
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09One of Esquire's 20 Best Books of Fall * One of Time's Most Anticipated Books of Fall"A deeply thought, rigorously researched, and riveting history of human butts. Radke knows exactly when to... -
Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.77*ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL: Esquire, Time, LitHub, The Every Girl, BookPage* "Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction-the kind that forces you to see something...